Sunday, September 7, 2008

Locking In on His Second Championship



A snippet from NMRAracing.com:

“All shook up” is a good way to describe the state of ACT Factory Stock going into Columbus, and more was in store over the weekend. Defending champ Tommy Godfrey was first in qualifying with an 11.262, followed by the only guy left to unseat him, John Leslie, Jr., who was carrying an 11.472. Louis Sylvester was third at 11.612, while Jay Dold was batting cleanup with an 11.713. A dropped valve and holed piston in the burnout box in the last round of quals put Leslie out of the picture, and Godfrey made the most of it, going all the way to the finals on Sunday, where he’d be matched against Matt Amrine, the FS rookie who scored a shocking win over Godfrey in the final round at Joliet. Amrine broke out the chainsaw and left the tree in Godfrey’s lap with a .034-.147 holeshot, but the eleven-sixty pace he’d been on all day wasn’t going to do it as Godfrey pulled an 11.224 out of his bag of tricks and earned his first winner’s circle appearance since Bradenton last year.

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